Rising costs are targeted by Obama

11:00 AM,
Aug. 23, 2013

Bill Destler

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Local educators Thursday generally praised President Barack Obama's blueprint for making college more affordable, saying it builds on some of the innovations undertaken by the State University of New York to increase access to higher education.

The president unveiled the proposal at the State University at Buffalo Thursday and will field questions about it Friday at a town hall-style setting at SUNY Binghamton. He is making a two-day bus tour of upstate New York and Pennsylvania that's timed to coincide with college students returning to campuses for the academic year.